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Admissions · 5 months

Priya → Stanford ED

Eleven drafts of one essay.

Score lift

+80

1450 → 1530

Subject

Admissions

Duration

5 months

Week-by-week

  1. Week 0

    List built

    Stanford ED, plus REA backup at MIT and 12 RD targets.

  2. Week 4

    Personal statement

    Three concepts brainstormed. Pivoted to the family-restaurant angle in week five.

  3. Week 8

    Draft 6

    Started reading like her, not like a college essay.

  4. Week 14

    Supplements

    Stanford supplements drafted in batches of three.

  5. Week 22

    ED admitted

    Phone call from her tutor at 4pm on December 15.

"I didn't write a sentence. I just kept asking 'why did this happen?' until her draft answered it."

Daniela K., Stanford '24

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